The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FACTS.
Startling Statements Made by Professor
Nap. williams, OF sandy Mush.


tory of the society.
The objects Of the club are, briefly,
to promote and foster more earnest
and unhagging zeal for learning, and
to bring about higher standard of
photography in the better circles of
Sandy Mush Township.
The school-teacher from Lower HON.
iny. Mr.. Napoleon Williams, was pres
ent and read a paper on prehistoric
Man." There is only room here for a
few excerpts from this paper, all of
which is replete with thought and Pale
olithic terms that it would take smart
man two weeks to think of.
''It has been less than century,"
said Mr.. Williams, snufiing the candle
with his fingers and wiping off the smut
on his bootleg, "snce scientists began
to prowl around the dark corners of
creation and dig up the drift and rum
mage the deep recesses of loud-smelling
caves for the evidences of q prehis-
toric race.
I'm 1910, DR.. Goldfuss first began his
researches in the Cave of Gailenreuth,
in Barasia. Here he found the bones
of the Cave Bear, and, as it had been
many centuries since the death of the
Cave Bear he felt perfectly safe in con-
tinuing his researches.
"He also discovered, at this time, the
bones of other extinct animals, animals,
If possible, eXtincter than the Cave
Bear. Arguing at once that nature
would not place the bear upon the face
of a planet where there were no men
to prevaricate in the matter of bear
stories, DR.. Goldfuss easily arrived ut
the conclusion that this earth was once
peopled with Prehistoric Men and
Women!
"These theories led to results finally,
and before many years scientists had
found what they called Drift Men.
Drift Men are the oldest people we
known any thing of. Whea found, the
remains were said to be in bad state
of preservation. After viewing them
for some time, it was decided that de-
ceased came to his death from unknown
causes.
Digging little deeper through the
heavy deposit of breccia and Drift Men,
the scientific groper came upon traces
of Cave Men. At first only implements
of stone were found. These consisted
of spur heads Clipped out of flint, to-
| gether with stab knives, harpoons, pins,
/ avis and needles made of bone, and a
small implement, of unknown material
J and of a sonorous sound, supposed to be
chestnut bell.
"Day after day these scientists stood
knee deep in the prehistoric mud and
silt, knocking out their brains against
the stalactities, and by the light of a
splitting, sputtering torch, overhauline
the bowels of the earth for the dust o.
their departed relatives.
Through alternate layers of earth
stalagmite, charred bones, dust, cob
webs, dried tobacco quids, election re
turns, broken stalactites, hollow peacl
cans, mould, flint and bone shirt stud
that had rolled under the bureau mil
lions of years before Christopher Co
lumbus discovered America, there t
be forgotten by their owners, thes
patient men toiled on in search of mel
who had no doubt been dead thousand
of years before Pharaoh cut his from
teeth.
"No clothing of the Cave Men O
women has been exhumed, and it i
found that they did not have any. Blu
| ( 10 Lot TO tcf ,.,k
Their sufferings are over, and both tn
Cave Men and the Drift Men are pas
our help.
"As needles have been found, how
ever, coeval and co-extensive with tn
Cave Man, it has been argued that the
must have been used in the preparation
of clothing, though this is far off from
clear, as the needles may hav
been used by the women simpl,
to drop on the floor of the cave s.
that the Cave Man might step on then
in the dark.
1.-The Cave Bear, according to rud
outlines which we find traced or incise,
on slate by the Cave Men. was
Notwithstanding brute, with broa
smile. He looks like an animal tina
would appreciate any thing in the lin
of a little cave child.
"It required good deal of mora
courage, fellow citizens OF Sandy Musll
to climb Cave Bear and kill him wit
a Paleolithic dornick.
1--WE are prone to speak of the Cav
Man rs inferiorin strength and courage
but we forget that he had to fight TO
his cave, for his wife, for his life, fo
his food and for his sacred honor, and
even then, the chances are that his vot
was not counted half the time.
1--WE are apt to say that the Drill
Man and the Cave Man have failed t
contribute any thing to history in tn
way of art or literature that is worth
of consideration, and that, therefore
they were inferior as men and deticien
in courage; but who among us woul
care to catch full-hedged mammoth b
the tail and fight him to a finish wit
nothing but the thigh bone of Cav
Bear or stone broad-axe weighin
forty-eight poundsp
"Let the man who may feel disposed t
sneer at the poor Cave Man, take off n
his clothes, and with nothing whateve
in the way of apparel, with the exceI
ton of pair of ear-bobs and flush c
intense modification, undertake to bal
} tie with this gigantic brute, with II